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CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1856.
READ AND PONDER !
THE NE'W DEMOCRATIC" DOCTEIJTE.
-Slavery not to be Confined to the Iferro Eace,
but to be Made the Universal Condition of
' f the Laboring Classes of Society.
' The people of the Free States have so long
yielded to the arrogant demands of tlie Slave
Oligarchy in the South,that the latter has come
to think it can carry any measure it sees fit,
no m atter how degrading it may bo to the char
acter of the free white men of the North.
Not many years ago, the Southern slave
holders were content to have their "human
chattels" protected in the States where they
held them.
Xext, they demanded and secured ftvt Slave
States from acquired territory, (Louisiana,Flo
rida, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas,) while the
Free States have only secured two, Iowa and
California.
Aex, the Slave power demanded all the ter
ritories, and broke down the Missouri Com
promise, which secured a part of those terri
tories to free labor.
Xtft, they demanded the right to come into
tho free States with their slaves whenever they
choose, and stay as long as they please ; and
the United States Courts seem about to yield
to them, and grant this outrageous demand.
But the last, the crowning, the diabolical as
sumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined
to the NEGRO RACE, but must be made to
include laboring WHITE MEN also. This
doctrine, which is so monstrous and shocking
as almost to seem incredible, is now openly a
vowed and defended by very many of the news
papers and of the public men of the South
that support James Buchanan. The doctrine
is also proclaimed by some Northern newspa
pers of the so-called Democratic party, but
not generally with such boldness as in the
South. To show the exact extent and nature
of the doctrine of enslaving WHITE MEN",
tho following extracts from Buchanan papers,
and froiu the speeches of Buchanan men, are
given :
The Richmond Examiner ono of tho leading
Democratic papers in Virginia, ardently sup
porting Mr. Buchanan, holds the following lan
guage in a late issue :
"Until recently, the defence of Slavery has
labored under great difficulties, because its a
pologists (for they were niero apologists) took
hulf-wuy grounds. They confined the defence
of Slavery to mere negro Slavery ; thereby
giving up the Slavery principle, admitting oth
er forms of Slavery to be wrcng.
'The line of defence, however.is now chang
ed. The South now maintains that Slavery is
righl, natural and necessary, and dots not de
pend upon difference of complexion ! The laws
of th Slave States justify tae holding of
W II ITE MEN' in bondage."
The CharlestonAftrcuri, the leading Buchan
an paper in South Carolina, says :
"Slavery is the natural and normal condi
t?on of the laboring man, whether WHITE or
Hack. The great evil of Northern free socie
ty is, that it is burdened with a servile class of
MECHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for self
government, and yet clothed with the attributes
and powers of citizens. Master arid slave is a
relation in society as necessary as that of pa
rent and child ; and the Northern States will
yet have to introduce it. Their theory of free
government is a delusion."
There's "Democratic" doctrine for you.with
a vengeance; "our theory of free government
a delusion," "laboring men, whether while or
black, to be slaves ?" Verily, matters are com
ing to a pretty pass with us.
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Mr. Buchan
an's confidential organ, and considered by the
"Democratic" party as its ablest paper iu the
South, speaks as follows in a recent number:
"Repeatedly have we asked the North, 'has
rot the experiment of universal libertv FAIL
ED ? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY
INSUFFERABLE ? And do not most thiuk
r.'.g men among you propose to subvert and re
construct it V Still no answer. This gloomy
.sik hee is another conclusive proof, added to
z:ir.y other conclusive evidences we have fur-
ished, that free society, in tho long run, is an
impracticable- form of society ; it is every
where starving, demoralized, and insurrectionary-
"We repeat, then, that policy and humanity
furbid the extension of the evils of free
jroctV.'y to new people and coming generations.
Two eppesite and conflicting forms of so--i'-y
cannot, among civilized men, co-exist
and endure. The one must give way and cease
to exist. Tho other become universal.
"If free society be unnatural, immoral, un
christian, it must fall, and give way to a slave
society a social system old as the world, uni
versal as man."
And the South Side Democrat, another pro
minent Buchanan paper, in Virginia, whose
editor was supported for Clerk of the House
of Representatives, by the Democratic mem
bers of the present Congress T. J. D. Fuller,
of Maine, among them abuses everything
FREE after this style :
"We have got to hating everything with the
prefix FREE, from free negroes down and up
through the whole catalogue FREE farms.
FREE labor. FREE society, FREE will, FREE
thinking, FREE children, and FREE schools
ail belonging to the same brood of damna
ble Isms. But the worst of all these abomina
tions is the modern system of FREE Schools.
The New England system of ftec schools has
been the prolific cause and source of the infi
delities and treasons that have turned her ci
ties int Sodonis and Gomorrahs, and her land
into the common nestling-places of howling
bedlamites. We abominate the system because
the SCHOOLS ARE FREE."
The Washington Union, tho National Organ
ct the "Democratic" party, says that the hon
est and heroic FREE LABORING MEN of
Kansas
",5k a MISER ABLE, BLEAK-EYED RAB
BLE, who nave been transferred like SO MA
N V CATTLE to that country."
The New York Day Book, one of the two
papers in New York Cjty that support James
Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERI
CANS, Germans and Irish, who may fall into
poverty and be unable to support their fami-
lies. Here are the Day Book's exact words in
speaking of the POOR WHITE PEOPLE :
"Sell the parents of these children into
SLAVERY". Let our Legislature pass a law
that whoever will take these parents and take
care of them and their OFFSPRING, in sick
ness and in health clothe them, feed them,
and house them: shall be legally entitled to
their services ; and let the same"Legislatnre de
cree that whoever receives these parents and
their CHILDREN, ami obtains their services,
shall OWN THEM AS LONG AS THEY
LIVE."
The Richmond Enquirer, of a very recent
date, contains the following very 'high' opin
ion of the people of the North :
"We can bring the capital employed in
manufactures, and most of it employed in com
merce, South, when we please. We can trans
fer Manchester, and Birmingham and Lowell
to the South, and thus in a single year, quad
ruple the wealth of the South. But we would
not have your rich, vulgar, licentious bosses,
and your brutal, ignorant and insubordinate fac
tory hands in our midst, for all the wealth of
"Ornius and of Ind." We are as rich as we
care to be. We would not exchange our situ
ation for the vulgar sensuality and brutality of
the "nourcavx riches," the coarse parvenues,
the millionaire cotton factors and grocers of
the North or of England, much less for tho
countless millions of paupers and criminals, who
lift up and sustain the cncardly, selfish, sensual,
licentious, infidel, agrarian, and revolutionary
edifice of free society."
The Muscogee, Alabama, Herald, an enthu
siastic Buchanan paper, delivers itself as fol
lows :
"Free society ! we sicken at the name.
What is it hut a conglomeration of GREASY
MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES,
SMALL FISTED FARMERSand moon struck
theorists ? All the Northern and especially
the New England States are devoid of society
fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevail
ing class one meets with is that ol mechanics
struggling lo be sent eel, and small farmers do
ing their own drudgery; ind who are not fit
for association with a Southern gentleman's
(nigger) body-servant. This is your free so
ciety which tlao Northern hounds are endeav
oring to extend into Kansas."
So much for extracts from "Democratic"
newspapers. Now for a few from Democratic
speeches :
S. W. Downs, late Democratic Senator from
Louisiana, in an elaborate and carefully pre
pared speech, published in the Wasbington
Globa, says :
"I call upon tho opponents of Slaverv to
prove that the WHITE LABORERS of the
North are us happy, as contented, or as com
fortable, as the slaves of the South. In the
South the slaves do not sutler one-tenth the
evils endured by the white laborers of the
North. Poverty is unknown to the Southern
slave ; for as soon as the master of slaves be
comes too poor to provide for them, he SELLS
them to others, who can take care of them.
This, sir, is one of the excellencies of the sys
tem of slavery, and this the superior condi
tio, of the Southern slave over the Northern
WHITE laborer"."
According to Mr. Downs, then, (good Dem
ocratic authority,) all t!:at the Northern white
laborer requires is somebody to sell him when
he falls into poverty. Admirable philanthro
py ! Beautiful democracy ! !
Senator Clemens, of Alabama, declared in a
speech in the U. S. Senate, that
"Tho operatives of New England were not
as well situated nor as comfortably off us Hie
slaves that cultivate the rice and cotton fields
of the South."
In a recent speech by Mr. Reynolds, Pierce-Buchanan-Democratic
candidate for Congress
from Missouri, that gentleman distinctly as
serted that
"The same construction of the power of
Congress to exclude Slavery from a United
States Territory, would justify the Govern
ment in excluding foreign-born citizens Ger
man and Irish as iccll as niggers.
Here a Missouri Democrat classes German
and Irish indiscriminately with Xegro slaves.
Mr. L. II. Goode, another Atchison Demo
crat of Missouri, in a recent speech against the
Free State men of Kansas, denounced the la
boring men as "WHITE SLAVIW !"
Scuatcr Butler, (the uncle of "Assassin"
Brooks,) a shining light in the Democratic ga
laxy, declared in a speech in the UnitedStates
Senate this session
"That men have NO RIGHT TO VOTE un
less they are possessed of property, as required
by the Constitution of South Cmolint. There
no man can VOTE unless he owns TEN NE
GROES, or real estate to the value of Ten
Thousand Dollars.
And this is the doctrine "Democracy," so
called, would introduce into Pennsylvania.
JAMES BUCHANAN.the Presidential can
didate of the men and of the party who hold
these odious views, advocated the doctrine of
reducing the WAGES of AMERICAN OPE
RATIVES and LABORERS to the Euiopean
standard, wuieh is known to bo about TEN
CENTS A DAY. What a fit candidate Mr. Bu
chanan is for those who would make WHITE
MEN slaves!
JAMES BUCHANAN is the Representa
tive and Advocate of the extension of SLAVE
LABOR.
IREEMEX OF PEXXSYLrjXI.l! Are
you prepared to cast your votes for a man
who entertains such doctrines J
There are two eventful periods in the life
of women : one, when she wonders who she
will have the other who will have her. The
first occurs t sixteen, the second at forty.
UNMASKING Til EM !
We have for some time been satisfied that
a few unscrupulous politicians were attempt
ing to sell out the true Americans of Penn
sylvania to the Buchanan party ; but we re
frained from saying anything, until the duty
we owe to our American brethren impels us
to speak out. A few words, however, will suf
fice. It is well known that the respective
friends of Fillmore and Fremont desired an
accommodation, or union, by which the State
might be carried against Buchanan. To do
this, a union electoral ticket was suggested.
It is notorious, that at first nearly, if not all,
the leaders who pretend to favor Fillmore, as
well as those who support Fremont, advocated
t he proposition. Suddenly, however, under
some mysterious influence, the first mentioned
class of politicians tacked about and opposed
a union, and all their cflbrts have since then
been directed towards dividing the opposition
to Buchanan. When the several State Com
mittees met at Philadelph ia week before last,
the disorganizes rejected all offers of union.
And in order to test them fully, it was propo
sed to take the Fillmore electoral ticket, ask
ing only, if it would 110 elect Fillmore, but
would elect Fremont, that the electors should
be pledged to cast their votes for the latter ;
and this offer, as well as every other, was re
jected. It must, therelore, be apparent to ev
ery AonuMhinking man, that the object of
those who oppose the Union ticket is to aid
Buchanan. Americans ! Will you allow your
selves to be duped by these political knaves ?
We trust not. We warn you against their
wiles, so that you may act knowingly, and that
you may not reflect upon us hereafter with ha
ving been remiss in our duty in this respect,
we invite your attentive perusal of the following
Adlress of the Republican State Executivo
Committee.
To the People of Pennsylvania :
FALLOW Citizexz : The Republican State
Executive Committee, appointed by the State
Convention, which assembled in Philadelphia
111 June last, was charged with the duty of
nominating candidates for Electors of Presi
dent and Vice President of the United States.
The Committee, always desirous of securing
a fair and honorable alliance with other par
ties ia this State, who arc hostile to the forci
ble extension of slavery into free territory,
considered that its duties would be discharged
with greater satisfaction to its constituency,
by casting no obstacles in the way of such an
alliance. A large number of our fellow citi
zens had expressed their preferences for Mr.
Fillmose as a candidate for tho Presidency,
although their opinions on the questions of
slavery extension were concurrent with those
entertained' by the Republican party. Alrea
dy, the Republicans and Americans were uni
ted in support of the same candidates for cer
tain State officers. In every county, with but
ono or two exceptions, they united on the
same candidates for Congress and the State
Legislature, and a general desire was expres
sed from all quarters of the State for a union
on ono electoral ticket. About the middle of
August a verbal communication was made by
Mr. Sanderson, Chairman of the American
State Central Committee, to the Chairman of
tho Republican State Committee, expressive
of au anxiety to unite the two parties, and re
questing that the liepublicans should postpone
their nomination of electors in order to secute
their object. Several niemlK;rs of the Ameri
can Committee made the same request, found
ing it on the assurance that the friends of Mr.
Fillmore, throughout the State generally, con
sidered his election hopeless, and earnestly
desired to secure the defeat of Mr. Buchanan.
Soon after Mr. Sanderson's fraternal com
munication to the Chairman of the Republican
Committee, he visited the city of Washington,
and immediately on his return, a letter was re
ceived from him as follows:
Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 1830.
Sir In obedience to the instructions of the
Fillmore and Doiielson State Committee, I
submit to you, for the consideration and ac
tion of the Republican State Committee, of
wtich you are the Chairman, the following
proposition :
That the Chairman of the Democratic, Re
publican and American State Committee unite
in issuing a call for such number of meetings,
to be held at such times and places as may be
agreed upon by them, at which the issues in
volved in the present Presidential canvass
shall' be discussed by an equal number of
speakers of each party, and that the Chairman
ol each Committee shall have the exclusive
right of selecting the speakers for his party,
at such meetings, but that their names shall be
announced in the call for the meeting.
Y'ou will oblige by giving an answer to this
proposition, in behalf of your Committee, at
your earliest convenience.
I am, sir, very respectf ully yours,
J. P. Saxdebsox,
Chairman American State Committee.
CltARLtS Gibbons, Esq.
This proposition, submitted by Mr. Sander
son, seemed to contemplate enmity instead of
peace open war instead of fraternity with the
friends of Fremont and Dayton. It was so in
consistent with his verbal communication,
made but a short tini before to the Chairman
of the Republican Committee, as to require
some explanation, which was sought by the
following letter :
Philadelphia, August 20, 18-56. j
Sir I received your letter of the 27th inst,
by which you submit for the consideration and
action of the Republican State Committee the 1
following proposition :
"That tte Chairman of the Democratic Re-.
1 publican and American State Committees u-
nite in issuing a call for such number of meet
ings, to be held at such times and places as
may be agreed upon by them, at which the is
sues involved iu the present canvass shall be
discussed by an equal number of speakers of
each party,, and that the Chairman of each
Committee shall have the exclusive right of
selecting the speakers for his party at such
meetings, but that the names shall be announ
ced in the call for the meeting."
This resolution seems to require some ex
planation before it can be finally acted upon
by our Committee. A few days ago I had the
honor to receive from you, through the Hon.
James Cooper, a very distinct intimation that
the Committee of which you are Chairman de
sired to unite with the Republican State Com
mittee in the formation of an Electoral Ticket
to be supported by all citizens of Pennsylva
nia who are opposed to the Cincinnati Plat
form and to the election of Mr. Buchanan
On that ground you requested, through Mr.
Cooper, that the Republican Committee should
not form an Electoral Ticket at their meeting
which had been called for yesterday the 2Sth
instant.
Several members of your Committee subse
quently waited upon me, and stated as their
opinion that our fellow citizens in the interior
of the State who preferred Mr. Fillmore as a
candidate for the Presidency, were very gener
ally iu favor of such a course. I expressed
to them, as well as to Mr. Cooper, my cordial
acquiescence in the suggestion, and I am now
instructed by the Republican State Committee
to say that tho proposition for a Union Elec
toral Ticket meets with their hearty and unan
imous approval. According to your request,
and lor the purpose indicated by you, they
have deferred tho formation of an Electoral
Ticket, and have named the ISth proximo as a
suitable time for final action in the matter.
If the proposition embraced In your letter
be intended to take effect after a Union Ticket
shall have been formed, and the Americans
and Republicans arc to meet as allies to resist
the extension of slavery to territory which was
solemnly dedicated to Freedom, we cannot
hesitate to accept it. On that issue, which
stands paramount in the contest, we are ready
to give you hand and heart in an earnest strug
gle with that common foe which seeks, in the
disguise of Democracy, to degrade the white
laboring man to the level of a negro slave.
As soon as 1 receive your reply, I will'fur
nish you with a more definite answer to the
proposition contained in your letter.
I am, very respectfully, your &c,
Cn. Gibbons,
Chairman Republican State Committee.
To Jxo. P. Saxdeusox, Esq.
Chairman of American State Cooimittee,&c.
The explanation thus sought was never giv
en. Mr. Sanderson refused to define his posi
sition, but personally solicted the Chairman of
the Republican Committee lo withdraw his letter,
on the ground that he (Mr.Sauderson) had ex
pected a communication from Col. Forney,the
Chairman of the Democratic State Committee,
but had received none, and it was therefore un
necessary lo preserve the correspondence. His
request was not complied with. On the 12tli
of September, he renewed it in person, and
pressed it with much earnestness, but without
success. On the same day he sought a third
and secret interview with the Chairman of the
Republican Committee, to whom he addressed
the following note :
Friday Afternoon.
Dear Sir. :I have Forney's answer, and
would like to see you before 4 o'clock. Can
you not slip in at the side door, and see me at
my officer I do not like to call twice the
same day at your office. Truly, J. P. S.
To this note, the following answer was im
mediately given :
Friday, P. M., Sept. 12.
Dear Sir : I cannot call on you this after
noon, as you request. Perhaps it is unneces
sary, as I can see no reason for withdrawing
my reply to your letter of the 27th nit., and
do not feel myself at liberty to comply with
your request in that particular. Mr. Forney's
answer could have no influence on my course,
under any circumstances.
If you are really in favor of uniting the Op
position on one Electoral Ticket, why need
there be any mystery about it ? I have no
concealments in the matter, and if anything is
to be done, we must act promptly and frankly.
Very respectfully yours,
Cu. Gibbons, Chairman, &c.
Jxo. P. Sanderson, Esq.
In the evening of the same day, Sept. 12,
the American State Committee met in Phila
delphia, but it is understood that Mr. Sander
son withheld from his colleagues the forego
ing correspondence. His committee, at that
meeting, passed a resolution that they were
"in favor of any honorable arrangement with the
friends of Fremont and Dattox, to defeat Mr.
Bi cuanan," whieh Mr. Sanderson was reques
ted to communicate to the RepublicanConimit
tec, which was to meet on the 18th of the same
month. He suppressed the resolution, and the
Committee, although in session within two
hundred yards of the ''side Joor" of his office,
received no information from him on the sub
ject. It was still deemed expedient that the Re
publican Committee should take no action in
the formation of an electoral ticket, without
a fair and open conference with the American
Committee. The subject was accordingly
postponed tJ the 7th of October, and the fol
lowing letter was addressed to Mr. Sanderson :
Philadelphia, Sept. 29, 18-30.
Dear Sir : 1 am instructed by the Repub
lican State Executive Committee to invite a
conference with the American State Commit
tee, at Harrisburg, on the 7th prox., for the
purpose of forming an electoral ticket to be
supported by the citizens of Pennsylvania,
who are opposed to the extension of slavery
and to the election of Mr. Buchanan to the
Presidency.
At the meeting of the committee, which I
have the honor to represent, held on the 18th
inst., of which yon had the notice, some com
munication on this subject from the American
Committee was fully expected ; but none was
received, and I have not had the pleasure of
tearing from you sines.
We have been lead to suppose that your
committee has authority to withdraw, whole or
in part, the electoral ticket nominated by the
American Convention, for the purpose of se
curing an alliance of the two parties arainst a
common enemy. And believing that such an
alliance may be tormed without compromising
the honor of either party, the Republican
Committee has postponed the nomination of
candidates for electors to the Jiftest period
which is consistent with the authority delega
ted to it by the State Convention.
I therefore beg leave to urge upon you the
necessity of calling your committee together
for the purpose, and at the time and place a
bove designated.
If you determine to do so, I will cheerfully
forward youi notice to each member of your
committee, by one or more special messengers
whom you may consider worthy of your confi
dence. Very truly, you r3, Cn. Gibbons.
Chairman Republican State Ex. Committee.
Jxo. P. Sanderson, Esq.,
Chairman American State Ex. Committee.
Invitations to a conference were also ad
dressed to the individual 'members of the A
merican Committee, from several of whom
written answers were received, urging a post
ponement of action until faftcr the October e-
lection, pledging themselves in favor of a Un
ion Ticket, and communicating, for the first
time, the resolution passed by their committee
on the 12th of September, which had been sup
pressed by their Chairman. One member of
the Committee, referring to sonic of his col
leagues in connection with the proposition for
a Union Ticket, says : "They may not join
us for powerful reasons ; but, be this as it may
we can carry the State without them. An ap
peal to the great body of the American party,
iu the last resort, is the true policy. I give
you again the most unqualified assurance that
1 will lead this movement for a UnionTickct,"
and it will succeed." As tho writer of the let
ter indicates his suspicion of the corruptibility
of some members of the American Committee,
it is obviously improper to mention his name
without his authorty.
On the 3th of October, the following replv
was received from Mr. Sanderson, through the
Post Office.
Philadelphia. Oct. GJ, 1S5G.
Dear Sin : Being absent from the city
when your letter was laid on my desk, it did
not reach me until my return home, which
will explain the cause of the delay in acknowl
edging its receipt.
The Fillmore and DonelsonState Committee
will have a meeting in this city, on the even
ing of the 10th instant, when I will present
yonr communication for the consideration
and action of said Committee. Knowing the
views of the members of the Committee as I
do, on the subject to which yo::r letter relates
I am satisfied that a meeting at the time and
place stated by you, would end in accomplish
ing nothing, and be entirely useless. Hence
I do not feel myself warranted in complying
with your request ; and, therefore, respectful
ly decline to convene them at llariisburg on
the 7th instant.
I am, very truly yours,
J. P. Sanderson.
Charles Gibbons, Esq..
Chairman Republican State Committee.
The Republican Committee met zt llairis
burg on the 7th inst., -and adjourned to meet
in Philadelphia 011 the lGth, for the purpose
of forming the Electoral ticket in conjunction
with the American Committee. The minutes
of proceedings of the last named body, at its
meeting on the ICth, have been published, and
it appears "that Mr. Sanderson suppressed the
foregoing communication addressed to him on
the 29th of September, which in his answer he
promised to lay before bis committee.
The Republican Committee, at its mceti. g.
held on the same day, sent a deputation to the
American Committee, with the following in
structions :
Resolved, That the Committee appointed to
confer with the Fillmore and LHucIson State
Committee, be instructed to invite them to
meet ami unite with the Republican State Ex
ecutive Committee, for the purpose of forming
an electoral ticket, opposed to the election of
James Buchanan, upon the basis proposed by
the Union State Central Committee, as pub
lished in the call for a Union State Conven
tion, to meet in Harrisburg on the 21st inst.
And if this invitation lo not accepted then,
Resolved, That the said Committee be in
structed to invite the Fillmore and DoneNon
State Committee to meet with us for the pur
pose of forming an electoral ticket on some
other basis, which will be lifcelv to receive the
support of the people of this State opposed to
the Cincinnati platform and the election of
James Buchanan.
The American Contention refused to accept
cither invitation, and rejected the following
resolution, offered by Mr. Francis Jordan, of
Bedford:
Resolved, That if tho friends of Fremont and
Dayton accept and support the American elec
toral ticket, at the ensuing election, we are
willing that the said ticket may cast the elec
toial vote of the State for Fr mont and DaV
ton, in case it will defeat Mr. Buchanan, and
will not elect Fillmore and Donelson if given
to them.
They also struck from their Electoral ticket
two gentlemen, who had been placed on it by
the American State Convention, who had de
clared that they preferred Mr. Fremont to Mr.
Buchanan for the Presidency, substituted oth
ers who prefer the latter to the former candi
date, and finally adjourned.
A minority of the Committee (seven in num
ber) dissatisfied with the conduct cf their col
leagues, then united with the Republican and
North American Committees, and formed a
Union electoral ticket, which is fully explain
ed in the official announcement already made.
All that could be done by the Chairman of
the American State Committee and his coad
jutor in tfaa DemocMtie Mnih to giv tht
electoral vote of Pennsylvania to Mr. Bncha
an, by a secret, side-door combination with
the friends of that gentleman, to divide the
strength of the opposition, has been accom
plished. The proposition of the 27th August
was evidently designed to embroil the Amer
ican and Republican parties in every county
where they had united on Assembly and Con
gressional candidates, and thus aid the De
mocracy to an overwhelming' victory. ' For
what other object did the Chairman of the A
merican Stafe Committee place himself in
communication with Mr. Forney 1 Whether
that gentleman accepted an invitation to "slip
in at the side door" of Mr. Sanderson, or
whether Mr. Sanderson "slipped in at the side
rioor" of Mr. Forney, is not certainly known.
Why, Mr. Sanderson should invito a secret
"5i ie door" interview, and shrink back from a
fair, open and honorable conference, can only
be surmised. Although Chairman of the A
mcrican State Committee, it is well under
stood that he was never connected with the A
merican organization, and under other cir
cumstances, a "side door" effort on bis partt
annihilate it would perhaps subject him to no
! rcM'll. .'!; - Tlr.t vliV li tlimli? imrtipmnfa
jthe concoction of a scheme to frustrate and
defeat the well -known wishes and purposes of
that party, after it had so far honored him with
its confidence as to place Lim at the head of
its State Committee, is a question which must
be settled by those who have been betrayed.
The Democratic State ticket has been elect
ed by a small majority. It ""eceived the votes
of thousands of Mr. Fillmore's friends Jpi Phil
adelphia and clsewt.ere, who cannot support
James Buchanan for the Presidency. It
"slipped in at the side door," while the true
friends of the Union ticket were slumbciing
at their j e ts. They have not been vigilant.
They have not put forth their strength. Tbo
otlicial returns of the recent election show that
in many counties their votes have not been
po'kd.- In Cumberland the entire vote is
marly s-ix huxdrld less than ia 1834. Ir Berks
it is nearly Jive hundred less than in 1S52. In
Franklin, it is nearly six hundred less than in
1S32. In Dauphin there is an increase of sev
enty votes only since 1S32. Similar deficien
cies will be found in the official returns from
other counties. The Democratic party, with
a perfect organization in every election dis
trict in the State, polled every vote which
could be secured by the utmost vigilance and
at an cost. Never before were such efforts
inado by that party to carry an election and
never was an opposition more sanguine of its
own success, and more neglectful of the prop
er means to secure it.
Friends of Liberty ! We invoke yon to a
rouse from that supineness which must prove
fatal to every cause, however just and holy it
tuny be. With you a gracious Providence baa
deposited the power of arresting the extension
of human slavery to the free territories of tho
country. The Republican party proposes no
interference with the constitutional claims of
any State. It docs not concern itselt with
slavery in the South it seeks no quarrel with
any section of the Union. But it demands fi
delity to that solemn compact" which admitted
Xissouri, j ledged freedom to Kansas, and
peace to a : distracted country. It declares
that those wbo destroyed it shall derive no ad
vantage from their own wtongful act, and this
is a principle daily administered in every
court of justice throughout the civilized world.
It.promulgates no political doctrines of recent
origin, but founds itself upon those embraced
and maintained by WasnrxcTOs; Jeffep.sox,
Franklin, and other Fathers of the Republie.
The Electoral Ticket nominated by the joint
action of the State Committees, represents
fairly the principles for which we contend.
Every vote cast for that which contains tho
name of John C. Fremont, is a vote for thoss
principles, and the aggregate will exhibit their
strength with the people of Pennsylvania. In
proportion to the number of votes cast for
that ticket, in the event of the election of the
twenty-six electors, the vote of Pennsylvania
will be cast in the Electoral College. And so
in proportion to the number of votes given for
Millard Fillmore and the same twenty-six elec
tors will be the number of votes which he w ill
receive in the Electoral College. Mr. Fre
mont and Mr. Fillmore are, therefore, rival
candidates, and the contest for popular supre
macy may be conducted by their respective
friends with ail the earnestness in their power,
each contending for their principles without
compromsso or concealment, and asking no
favors of the other. This plan of union, ex
acting no moral- sacrifice, must commend it
self to the friends of both candidates, und its
acceptance !ythem must result in the defeat
of Mr. Buchanan. ' ' . . .. ;
Republicans ! Lotus prepare fur'the final
atrtiegle; Our cause is just, our candidate is
worthy In the prime and vigor of life,whicb
has been devoted to honorable, laborious and
useful services to the country, the Acknowl
edged founder of the Free State of California,
the first who opeacd a path for the cuiigract
across the Rocky Mountains to the shores ff
the Pacific, facingdeath, and overcoming dan
gers in the enterprise which no man before
him had dared to encounter, ho has bee a pre
sented to the people, not as a calculating and -successful
politician, but as one from their
own ranks, whose career in the evidence cf
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